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following on from the tweeting birds and chirping crickets tapes (haven't done them yet though), i want to do a 'church bells in the distance' tape. suggestions? i'll start off with piano magic's halloween boat, and disco inferno's summers last sound/love stepping out. what else?

― gareth, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Handbells playing nordic hymns haunting and elegant ands sort of cold . I have a tape if you want .

― anthony, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My personal favourite church bells will always be the ones that comprise the intro to Lennon's "Mother." Lo-fi and distorted, they are the most fitting possible opening to the Plastic Ono Band album--gritty, raw, stark, and epitaph-like, but somehow vaguely indicating rebirth. If they don't chill you...

― matthew m., Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wedding Bell Blues, orig. by Laura Nyro, popularized by The Fifth Dimension (which I think contains the requisite sound in question).

― Sterling Clover, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Big Black Smoke" by the Kinks has them, or did I dream that?

― duane, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Again The Orb's 'Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld' has *all* these sounds: crickets/birds/insects/churchbells/spaceships/lawnmowers/rain, you name it, it's there. So any thematic tape should have a track off that album.

― Omar, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Virginia Astley's "From Gardens Where we Feel Secure" is the one for this. Not only does it include such sounds (including "church bells in the distance") the music is very evocative of such things too.

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― Norman Fay, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Big Black Smoke" - The Kinks

― Dr. C, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry Duane - didn't see your response. Maybe I'll start reading the threads before replying.

― Dr. C, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Does it have to be in the distance? If not, the start of 'Margaret on the Guillotine'

― Nick, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Very early FiniTribe circa 1986 had a track that sampled church bells, Detestimony that Peel played many atime. A few years later this an Ibiza balearic favourite alongside other British artists such as Thrashing Doves, The Woodentops and Pete Wylie: Sinful.

― DJ Martian, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You're forgetting 'The Whole of the Moon', MartianMan. Whenever I hear the playlists of these ground-breaking Balearic summers I think the whole thing must have quite dreadful.

― Nick, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The start of ' The sensual world ' by Kate Bush...mmmmm ...yes

― Mat O, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just read that a new recording of Arvo Part's organ music mixes in the sound of (Russian?) churchbells. Is that kitsch?

― X. Y. Zedd, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dark Side of the moon, ALways Something there to remind me

― Mike Hanle y, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It'll take some skillful sequencing, but you should probably work AC/DC's "Hells Bells" in there.

― Mark, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

russian bell ringing is amazing. cant really describe it, but its so rhythmic, and dischordant and kinda sounds a bit like autechre (most of you probably think thats a bad thing, but i think its a good thing, especially when you see some mentalist orthodox priest with huge facial hair and flowing black robes lost in a frenzied trance of clanging of clappers....)

in fact its probably the best thing in russia. should really be documented in some way. im quite up for going around recording in churches throughout russia, although this is presumably unbearably pretentious.....

in fact its probably been done. i mean, there was that compilation of vietnamese music a while back that peel and the wire lot creamed their pants over, so russian bellringing is surely more in demand.... maybe its not hip enough..

― ambrose, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Now I want to hear Russian bell-ringing.

― Lyra, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Track 10 on Jane Siberry's "When I Was A Boy" album is entitled "bells", and is just that. Churchy. In the distance.

― Michael Jones, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Doesn't "Black Sabbath" by, um, Black Sabbath start with ringing bells? If not that track, I know one does.

The Fifth Dimension's "Wedding Bell Blues" may well have bells in it; I know for sure Laura Nyro's doesn't.

― Sean, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It may not be church, but the sounds from the bell tower at my university were actually just a cd of bells ringing. I always wanted a copy...

― tha chzza, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, and at the end of PJ Harvey's "Teclo" there's those little hand bells that they play in Lutheran churches.

― tha chzza, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm amazed that no-one has mentioned Spiritualized. There's a track towards the end of, um, LaGWAFiS, with all these bells. I once heard them and thought, nowadays we only hear church bells on records, not in real life.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Reynard: you've just, rather wonderfully, defined why Paul Dacre will go to his grave a fully deservedly depressed, angry, bitter man.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have a hard time with this topic but the people I'd most like to see are the older performers.. Chris de Burgh along with Miss Connie Frances, or maybe Miss Brenda Lee. Herb Alpert, Bobby Vee, Bobby Vinton Dell Shannon... All Great. Does anyone remember these singers? Maybe i'm just too old? Gale

― Gale Deslongchamps, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yo! Bridget St. John's sublime "Ask Me No Questions."

― Michael Daddino, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Uh, I don't think you should include it on your tape, but Pink Floyd, something from The Division Bell (I think it might be "High Hopes").

― Josh, Saturday, 4 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It is. Possibly the worst song in history.

"Hats Off To Larry" = GRATE.

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 4 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pink Floyd, "Fat Old Sun"

― Phil, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, and The Division Bell is crap, yes. Every Pink Floyd album after The Final Cut was terrible.

― Phil, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

It may not be church, but the sounds from the bell tower at my university were actually just a cd of bells ringing. I
always wanted a copy...
In the late 70s a wealthy allumni donated the same thing (not a cd though) to my university. Her idea was so they could call people to mass nightly or for holidays. The university accepted the donation but was trying to move away from its Methodist roots. I never once heard them play it over her system.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 4 January 2003 00:27 (twenty-three years ago)

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